Beldore Hollow, Virginia (also referred to as "Beldor" and spelled "Beldor Hollow") is an extinct unincorporated community in Rockingham County, Virginia.[1][2]
The Beldore Hollow community included homesteads, farms, cemeteries, a one-room school, and a village in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley.[3][4][5][6]
The community became part of Shenandoah National Park,[7] and the area is now locally referred to as the "Beldor Hollow Overlook."[8][9][10][11]
State Route 628 is locally referred to as Beldor Road.[12]
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- ^ Shenandoah National Park (N.P.), Facility Development Plan: Environmental Impact Statement. 1997.
- ^ "Virginia's Ghost Towns". sites.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ Lambert, Darwin (1989-01-01). The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park. Roberts Rinehart. ISBN 978-1-4616-6398-0.
- ^ Jr, L. B. Taylor (2019-07-17). The Big Book of Virginia Ghost Stories. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-4397-2.
- ^ Hensley, Jan (2007). Sallie's Story: An Exploration Into the Lives of the Hensely, Maiden, Meadows, Gardner and Smith Families of Rockingham, Page and Albemarle Counties, Virginia. J. Hensley.
- ^ Eisenfeld, Sue (2015). Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6539-4.
- ^ Holsinger, John R. (1975). Descriptions of Virginia Caves. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources.
- ^ Shenandoah National Park Long-term Ecological Monitoring System User Manuals. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1990.
- ^ Manning, Russ (2000). 75 Hikes in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Mountaineers Books. ISBN 978-0-89886-635-3.
- ^ Virginia Geographic Names. U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Office of Geographic Research. 1981.
- ^ Conners, John A. (1988). Shenandoah National Park: An Interpretive Guide. McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-939923-02-1.
- ^ http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/Traffic_2016/AADT_082_Rockingham_2016.pdf VDOT Rockingham County 2016 Traffic Counts